Does observing reciprocity or exploitation affect elevation, a mechanism driving prosociality?

Fitness is enhanced by determining when to behave prosocially. Elevation, an uplifting emotion elicited by witnessing exemplary prosociality, upregulates prosociality in the presence of prosocial others, as such contexts render prosociality profitable and/or antisociality costly. Prior research exam...

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Main Authors: Daniel M.T. Fessler, Adam Maxwell Sparks, Theodore Samore, Colin Holbrook
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X19000033/type/journal_article